O let me go, Voronezh, O return me:
You will drop me, Voronezh, or neglect me,
You will let fall me down or put me back, —
Voronezh — whim, Voronezh — raven, knife...
Пусти меня, отдай меня, Воронеж:
Уронишь ты меня иль проворонишь,
Ты выронишь меня или вернешь, —
Воронеж — блажь, Воронеж — ворон, нож...
«Hands — in the dips / Of all resold, repledged, repossessed! / It’s just the lips, / The hands I mustn’t confuse with the rest! All those vain / Petty things that steal me from sanity. / Hands to heaven, / Friend, here I plead to my own memory! My poetry / (The dumping ground o...»
«Striking clock welcomes autumn to town: / This year notably heavy and hard, / Fallen fruit hits the ground, and the count / Is the number of fruit in the yard. With this music, important and clear, / Who repeats that the clock must still go? / The old garden performs with no fear / Loo...»
«Night, street, apothecary, lamppost, / Dim light, its mindless vanity. / Live for a century, or almost, — / It will be so. No getaway. Or die — it all will come full circle, / The motion that you will repeat: / Canal, night, rippling icy water, / Lamppost, apothecary, street.»
«Speak not of ways of good and bad: / Both are the ways of good. / At dawn, by Freedom I was led / To where they split; I stood As Freedom said, “Two ways here run, / Two truths, two merits split. / The crowd will struggle choosing one, / The wise won’t toil one bit. The things tha...»